I am an occupational therapy educator and designer. I have a baccalaureate degree in fine arts, baccalaureate in occupational therapy, master of nonprofit management, and post-professional doctoral degree in occupational therapy. I also have completed numerous professional education opportunities and earned certificates in instructional technology and design.

My perspective is one in which my professional field of occupational therapy is ready for innovation and radical change in how future occupational therapy professionals are educated and prepared for new territories of practice. This extends to the type of choices faculty make in teaching graduate students via new learning technology (simulation, gaming, learning on demand) but also in how students learn to use technology (virtual and augmentative reality, robotics, 3-D printing) to design solutions to problems of living.

The pedagogy underlying my methods is decidedly constructivist, but can also be influenced and informed by other theories of learning. I lean toward the future and in anticipating the best approach to education based on thought leaders in the field and emerging evidence of new teaching and learning practices.